In the Famine Years, a Poor Scholar’s Only Son Turns His Fate Around Through the Imperial Exams

[Years of disaster + imperial examinations + no golden finger + ensemble cast]

Li Ping'an is born into a famine-stricken year and becomes the only child in three generations of his family.

Drought ravages the land, his father is conscripted for corvée labor and his fate is unknown, and a powerful landlord named Lin seizes his sister, destroying their family.

After a year of drought, only Li Ping'an and the old, weak, and sick members of his family are left to depend on one another.

Faced with the oppression of the powerful, Li Ping'an understands one thing:

Only the imperial examinations can change his fate!

From the sole heir of a poor family to a powerful figure who dominates the court, he relies on nothing but his pen to humiliate the powerful, avenge his father, and get justice for his sister. In the end, he defies fate and reaches the pinnacle of life!